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Your cart is empty.The USB stereo audio adapter allows you to add an S/PDIF digital audio output and standard 3.5 mm analog audio/microphone connections to your system through USB offering an easy way to overcome or change your internal sound card without having to go through the tiresome process of opening your computer case. This external sound card also features the USB DAC (digital-to-analog converter) which offers 96 KHz/24-bit sampling rates for both playback and recording, and its 3.5 mm S/PDIF port with support for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound makes home-theater quality sound possible. These 5.1 external sound cards weigh 1.3 oz. and has a warranty of 2 years.External. Black. Dimensions: 0.6"(H) x 1.8"(W) x 1.9"(D). Cable length: 16". Interface/ports: 1 x 3.5mm mini-jack - (3 Position) female/1 x 3.5mm mini-jack - (4-Position) female/1 - 3.5mm Mini-Toslink (SPDIF; Optical) female/1 - USB-A (4 pin) male. OS compatibility: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7 / 8 / Server 2008 R2/ Server 2003/ Mac OS 10.x / Linux. Temperature: 0 deg C - 60 deg C operating, 0 deg C - 70 deg C storage, Humidity: 10%- 90% RH. Signal to noise ratio: 91 dB. LED indicators: Power/ playback / recording sample rate. Platform supported: PC, Mac, Linux, enclosure type: Plastic. 96KHz / 24-bit Hi-Fi USB audio, S/PDIF digital output with AC3 and DTS pass-through support, 5.1 Surround Sound supported. 3.5mm headphone/microphone-ports, 4-position TRRS headset with Mic supported, hardware volume knob and bass/treble boost EQ switch, LED sample rate indicators, 16in attached USB cable. Replace an internal sound card easily with a compact external USB device, adjust sound output easily with external volume and EQ controls.
Customer
2025-08-29 12:17:03
Highly recommended. This USB adapter works really well as an interface for recording musical instruments with a STEREO 3.5 mm battery-powered microphone like the AT2022 or AT822 (the kind of stereo mics often used with audio-for-video and portable audio recorder applications). It is a worthy replacement for the old Griffin iMic, which only recorded at 16 bit. The stereo mics, combined with this soundcard and a laptop, make for a really light, compact and portable kit for quick, great-sounding recordings. It captures excellent sound at 24/44.1, which I find to be the sweet spot for digital recordings. The latency, input and output levels on the soundcard were very user friendly and pretty optimal. I use it to record electric guitar, which is a relatively loud sound source, so I cannot report in detail on the noise floor of the soundcard. But in preliminary testing with spoken word, the noise level seemed surprisingly good for a consumer-level device, and would likely be more than adequate for most recordings. The hardware volume control on the StarTech is a nice bonus, and very convenient. The StarTech soundcard installed effortlessly in seconds on Windows 10, which automatically installed the right driver. You may need to make some tweaks in the Windows Control Panel/Sound settings to optimize the output and input of the StarTech USA Sound Card for your computer--that is also the place you can change the bit depth and sample rate for this soundcard. I use Cubase as my recording DAW, and this soundcard gave excellent results, both recording via the mic input and monitoring via the headphone output. And Cubase had no problem recognizing and connecting with the StarTech's inputs and outputs. My pre-sales contact with StarTech was impressive. The online chat representatives gave fast responses to my technical questions. I have no idea how durable this will be in the long run. But if it delivers a reasonable service life, I would gladly get this again.
Steve R. Hastings
2025-08-13 11:05:26
I bought this to use with my travel headphones, Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 wired headphones. The M2 headphones are very efficient, which means that I can hear even a little bit of noise. When I plugged them into my business laptop, I heard an annoying hiss. I tried a Creative E1 device and also heard an annoying hiss. With the ICUSBAUDIO2D device, I initially heard a loud hiss; but I turned the volume control dial down a bit, and very abruptly the hiss cut out. My music is still plenty loud enough.The left jack accepts the standard 4-ring plug for headphones + microphone all in one (common on mobile headphones). I was able to plug the M2 directly into that jack; headphones and microphone just worked.I use Linux, and the ICUSBAUDIO2D showed up in the Sound preferences as "USB Audio Device Analog Stereo". I had to adjust the amplification slider for the microphone all the way up or the M2's mic is too quiet, but after I did that it was just fine.Initially, bass sounded terrible. Anything with bass sounded muddy and smeared. But then I realized that the ICUSBAUDIO2D has a mini-equalizer feature: a 3-position sliding switch, with positions for Bass, Direct, and Treble. It defaults to "Bass" and it was applying some kind of bass boosting effect... and I didn't like what that effect was doing to my music. But no problem; once I figured it out, I switched it to "Direct" and I'll just leave it that way from now on. It sounds fine in "Direct" mode.Given how small and light this is, and given that my M2 headphones just plug right in and work with no adapter needed, I have found my new travel audio device. I'll just leave this in my laptop carrying bag all the time.EDIT: I have used this for about a month, and I am completely happy with it. You can get a better audio adapter but it will cost a lot more and probably need a separate power supply. Therefore I have upped my rating to 5 stars. It's the best in its class.
MRL
2025-08-06 17:09:57
This is like the 3rd one I bought and this one works great and has not static
Sako
2025-07-27 15:24:12
I am very happy with my purchase especially for the dolby surround 5.1. Everything works fine on Windows 11.
Xavier
2025-07-22 14:40:48
J'ai acheté cette carte son externe pour ajouter une sortie optique vers mon home cinéma 5.1.Le Dolby et DTS marche parfaitement bien et le son est de belle qualité.Excellent rapport qualité-prix pour cette utilisation, à côté des Creative et ASUS à plus de 60€.Si rien ne sort, essayez d'autres ports USB, c'était un peu capricieux de mon côté mais tout est OK après quelques essais.Pour bien tester votre système de son, n'hésitez pas à télécharger une vidéo de test avec sortie 6 canaux, une sortie testée à la fois.
Simon
2025-06-29 14:49:25
For years I tried to get the lot of my Bose headphones (QC15, QC25 and Soundsport) to work with my PC for gaming with voice chat, their mics are inline for smartphones. The TRRS adapters just never worked, I tried so many of them, including a crappy startech one, even tried to splice my own but to no avail.I was relunctant to have a USB adapter because it added an audio card to my computer but than I realized that the soundcard on my motherboard probably wasn't much better! So I took the plunge and so far, this little device is working beautifully! Haven't noticed any issues software wise on my computer either.Pros :- Working great (for me, that's awesome for startech products...)- Sturdy and well built- Small footprint, can be stuck to a PC with double sided tape for example- Really works with TRRS, so smartphone headphones with inline mics work!- Amplifies audio by A LOT, which can be a good thing and also a bad one...Cons :- Plugging a single channel mic in the mic port cuts off the inline microphone, I guess it's by design, it's a bit of a bummer though.- Amplifies audio by A LOT, which, like I said in the pros, can be a good thing, but can also blow out your gear and your hearing... SO BE CAREFULL
rfontx
2025-03-02 09:06:33
Avevo bisogno di pilotare il mio amplificatore home theater con l'audio proveniente da un PC, che è dotato soltanto di una presa mini-jack per cuffia. Questa scheda audio USB rimpiazza quella interna, e invia l'audio all'amplificatore attraverso un cavo OTTICO con presa mini-jack da una parte e Toslink (spdif) dall'altra (questi cavi si trovano su Amazon). Attenzione che questa è l'unica modalià con cui vengono trasmessi 5.1 canali audio di film codificati in Dolby Digital (AC3), mentre il collegamento in analogico trasporta solo i segnali stereo. Per essere sicuri di avere l'audio in 5.1 basta riprodurre un film, i dialoghi verranno riprodotti solo dal canale centrale e tutti gli altri suoni arriveranno dalle casse frontali e da quelle surround. Esistono in rete anche molti test audio che pilotano i canali separati.Venendo al settaggio del PC, la scheda viene riconosciuta in Windows 10 e non servono driver aggiuntivi. Dovete disabilitare eventuali filtri nelle proprietà audio, e fare in modo che il suono non venga elaborato in nessun modo. Come player universale io uso VLC, anche qui va abilitato l'audio multicanale invece di quello stereo nelle preferenze avanzate (si trovano i settaggi in rete).In sintesi, una buona scheda che migliora sensibilmente la qualità audio del vostro impianto, se usata con connessione ottica in stereo per sorgenti musicali, oppure con audio multicanale 5.1 per i film in dolby digital.
Benno Meinke
2025-01-25 11:32:53
Diese Soundkarte ist sehr zu empfehlen, nach etlichem rum probieren unter Windows 11, habe ich nun die Lösung gefunden um Filme wieder in echtem Digitalsound am Laptop auf meinem Surround System zu genießen, ohne irgendwelche Virtuellen Spielereien. Egal ob AC-3 oder DTS , es funktioniert TOP.
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